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Virtual unrealities:

the short fiction of Alfred Bester
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Vintage Books, 1997 - Fiction - 366 pages
A collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male.

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Review: Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester

User Review  - Ilya - Goodreads

A reprinting of several of Bester's fantastic stories from the 1950s. One science fiction-horror story involves an early form of Nigerian spam as a major plot element (a character goes around the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Víkingur Fjalar - Goodreads

The time travel classic "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is my favorite sf short story of all time. Read full review

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Contents

They Dont Make Life Like They Used To
191
Will You Wait?
225
Adam and No Eve
273

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Alfred Bester,Robert Silverberg,Byron Preiss,Keith R. A. DeCandido
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TitleVirtual unrealities: the short fiction of Alfred Bester
AuthorAlfred Bester
PublisherVintage Books, 1997
Length366 pages
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Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories
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